Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Battle Cry
I am a woman who is queer and who enjoys sex, and who is generally positive and, perhaps naively, has faith that the world and the people in it are fundamentally ‘good’ and in their nature predisposed not to judge each other. As a writer and an academic, especially at the very start of my […]
A Teacher Encourages: A Writer is Born
I cannot remember what the story was called but I can remember its opening line. “Pooh! Not those smelly socks again.” It was a short memoir from the point of view of an old, disgruntled washing machine and I was surprised to be asked to read it aloud. I was ten years old and painfully […]
Questions No One Should Ask A Writer
The other day, someone said to me, “Hey, you’re a writer, aren’t you?” and I looked at the person suspiciously like, “Why? Do you need a poem for your grandpa’s birthday? Because I’m not good at the rhyme-y stuff.” But she responded, “No, ha-ha! I was just wondering if there are any questions that no […]
Writing Coercive Control Into Fiction (Very, Very Carefully)
This September sees the paperback publication of my first legal thriller, Degrees of Guilt, under the pen name HS Chandler. It was difficult to write for a number of reasons, but the most immediate of them was having proper consideration for the real victims of coercive control. This year has seen the overturning of a […]
Writing With Illness
My life took two distinct turns in 1998—make that three. It was the year I had to take over the management of my husband’s mortgage company, which coincided with a frenzied refinance boom. I had been plucked away from making mosaic furniture, cutting marble, granite and Murano glass on my tile saw. Tactile, creative work, […]
On Writing: Angela Meyer
On the plane on the way over to the UK for my book tour I watched a beautiful Scottish film called Tell it to the Bees. While it was essentially a story of both love (between two women) and friendship (between adults and children), there were gut-wrenching scenes of oppression. Women’s desires, their thoughts, their […]
Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad
Excerpted from Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad by Nicole Weisensee Egan. Copyright © 2019. Available from imprint, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Like millions of other Americans who helped make the comedy one of the most popular shows in the history of television, I became a fan of The Cosby Show […]
Once Upon A Time
KISS ME SWAMI is Kathalynn’s riveting memoir about how she found herself in the midst of the zeitgeist, a protagonist swept into a series of cultural movements, including finding herself in Hollywood in the 60’s and 70’s, front-row center in an exploding sexual revolution and a lively scene shifting from Old Hollywood; living in the […]
Do’s and Don’ts of Including Mental Illness in Your Fiction
In addition to the joy of being an author, I have also had the privilege of being a clinical psychologist for the last fifteen years. In fact, I practice in mental health full-time as a Pediatric and Perinatal Psychologist and I write in my spare time. My Psychologist job has greatly influenced my writing as […]
What Happened When I Gave Up My Amazon Sales Rank for Lent By Sandra Hutchison
In 2017 I made a little chunk of money as an indie novelist on Amazon, thanks to my first novel THE AWFUL MESS being in one of their Prime reading promotions. Including that one, I had three stand-alone novels out, and I enjoyed some read-through of the others, too, especially in Kindle Unlimited. But as […]
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